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LIFE 120/121 Labs: CSE Style - Journal Articles

This guide provides resource and composition guidance for the LIFE 120/121 Labs.

CSE Style

The Council of Scientific Editors (CSE) style is primarily used in the biological sciences, and .guides how both the End References (Bibliography) and the In-text References are formatted.  CSE has three different systems: Citation-Sequence, Citation-Name and Name-Year.​

This class is using the CSE Name-Year system for your assignments. In the End References, the primary difference is in the location of the year.

Examples:

          Citation-Sequence System,  and  Citation-Name System
                                Smart N, Fang ZY, Marwick TH. A practical guide to exercise training for heart failure patients. J Card Fail. 2003;9(1):49-58.

          Name-Year System
                                Smart N, Fang ZY, Marwick TH. 2003. A practical guide to exercise training for heart failure patients. J Card Fail. 9(1):49-58.

In true CSE style, you would use the official abbreviation for the journal name in the citation - as shown in the examples above.
For this class, you are using a modified version of the Name-Year system - use the full name of the journal in your citations.

CSE Style / Name-Year System - Basic form for Journal articles

For this class, use the CSE (Council of Science Editors) Citation Style, slightly simplified.  Use the full journal title in your references for this course, but be aware that true CSE Style usually requires you to use official journal title abbreviations.

Basic form:    Journal Articles - CSE Style / Name-Year System

      Author name(s). Year. Article title. Journal name.
               volume(issue):page numbers.

 

AUTHOR NAMES

List authors by last name followed by first and middle initials if given
Use a space, not a comma after the author's last name.
.
Put a comma between the author names and use a period after the last author.

List the authors in the order shown in the original article and citation.

 

YEAR     Use the year of publication.

 

TITLE OF THE ARTICLE

Capitalize ONLY the first word of the title, proper names, proper adjectives, acronyms, initialisms, and genus names. Genus species names are also italicized.
      Examples: Cascade Lake, genus Syphysodon, Holm Oaks (Quercus ilex)

 

SUBTITLE OF THE ARTICLE, if present

Subtitles are separated from the title by a colon, followed by a space, unless a question mark or exclamation point is already present. Do not capitalize the first word of a subtitle.

      Example:  Maggot therapy: a review of the therapeutic applications of fly
                            larvae in human medicine

      Example:  Does maggot therapy promote wound healing? the clinical and
                            cellular evidence.

 

NAME OF THE JOURNAL   Use the full name of the journal, not the abbreviation.
            Capitalize the significant words of the journal name.

 

VOLUME(ISSUE)

Issues may be represented by numbers or a chronological name, such as March, June, Spring or Fall. Not all publications have an issue number/name designation.

 

PAGE NUMBERS

List the page range, not just the starting page number, i.e. starting page number-ending page number. There is a colon after the Volume(issue) and before the Page range numbers.


SOME EXAMPLES

Single Author:

Pelkonen A. 2011. Allergies in summer. Duodecim. 127(13):1355-1360.


Multiple Authors, with two to ten authors:

Andrade JP, Berkov S, Viladomat F, Codina C, Zuanazzi JA, Bastida J.
        2011. Alkaloids from Hippeastrum papilio. Molecules. 16(8):7097-7104.

 

 More than 10 Authors:    List the first ten authors followed by the phrase "et al."

Walker SM, Durham SR, Till SJ, Roberts G, Corrigan CJ, Leech SC, 
       
Krishna MT, Rajakulasingham RK, Williams A, Chantrell J, et al. 2011. 
        Immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis. Clinical and Experimental
        Allergy
. 41(9):1177-1200.

 

CSE Style / Name-Year System - Online Journal articles

For this course, use this more detailed citation style only if the article is from one of the "online only" journals, where the citation does NOT use traditional page numbers, and uses an article ID  or article number instead.

 

Online only journal articles - CSE style / Name-Year System:

 

Author name(s). Year. Article title. Journal name [Internet].
          [cited date]; volume(issue):page numbers. 

          Available from: web address. DOI:  

 

[Internet].    Should be placed after the journal name, with a space between the
             journal name, with a space between the journal name and the [Internet].
             designator. Notice the period following the designator.

 

CITED DATE  Should be the date accessed/viewed online.

 

ARTICLE NUMBER     Some online only journal articles use an article ID number
              instead of page numbers.

 

PAGE NUMBERS      Some "online only" journals do use volume numbers, and the articles
               have page numbers, like print journals, but the page range for every article in
               the journal starts with page 1. In that case, there is usually an Article Number,
               though you may have to go to the full-text article to find it.

 

Nicastro KR, Zardi GI, McQuaid CD, Stephens L, Radloff S, Blatch GL. 2010.
         The role of gaping behaviour in habitat partitioning between coexisting
          intertidal mussels.
BMC Ecology
[Internet]. [cited 2011 Aug 27]; 10:17.
          Available from: https://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/
          1472-6785-10-17.pdf 
 

 

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) - a unique identifier for that specific article               

                          Some articles will show the DOI number, often on the article pages,  
                          and with the citation information.

Amado MV, Farias IP, Hrbek T. 2011. A molecular perspective on systematics,
           
taxonomy and classification Amazonian discus fishes of the genus .
            
Symphysodon. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology [Internet].
           
[cited 2011 Aug 27]; 2011:360654.  Available from:
            
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijeb/2011/360654/cta/    

            DOI: 10.4061/2011/360654

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